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9/11Standing On The Corner: A tour of the architecture of downtown Bloomington
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- Publication date
- 1999
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- McLean County, Illinois--Bloomington, architectural history, history, architecture
- Collection
- opensource
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 104.8M
"The buildings profiled in this book offer a cross section of the architecture that was practiced in Bloomington during most of its first 100 years. Many of these structures have varied histories, while others have served basically the same purpose -- under a string of different owners -- since the day they were built. The structures, which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, range from the 1840s to the 1940s and evoke the dominant styles of those times. In some cases, buildings changed appearance to keep up with the times.
What ties them all together is the fact that they exist not in pictures of memory but in brick, steel and stone -- oversized artifacts standing on the corner in silence. Together they make a statement about the diversity of the human experience."
